Manual for Solar Fruit Dryer in Vanuatu
Contact: Christopher.Bartlett@giz.de
The CVCA methodology provides a framework for analyzing vulnerability and capacity to adapt to climate change at the
community level. Recognizing that local actors must drive their own future, the CVCA prioritises local knowledge on climate
risks and adaptation strategies in the data gathering and analysis process.
This is a practical manual to carry out participatory monitoring, evaluation, reflection and learning in community level climate change adaptation programs. It includes guidelines in the use of participatory tools and methodologies.
Endorsement by the Vanuatu Ccouncil of Ministers to estalish the National Advisory Board on Climate Change & Disaster Risk Reduction
New Community Training Module of Climate Change, developed by USP, GIZ, SPC and CETC.
Contact Hanna.Sabbas@giz.de
Global climate change and the significant impacts it can have
on people’s lives are a major challenge for developing countries.
Heavy floods, severe droughts and other weather extremes are
examples of those impacts which call for building up capacity
to adapt to the impacts of climate change.
While climate change will affect all regions of the world, people
in developing countries are the most vulnerable. That is
why adaptation is a priority for German development cooperation,
with many programmes already addressing the challenge
There is no doubt that our climate is changing. This will
pose huge challenges to nations, organisations, enterprises,
cities, communities and individuals. Developing
countries will suffer most from the adverse consequences
of climate change, and some highly vulnerable regions
and people are already being affected.
There is increasing agreement that if temperatures rise
by no more than 2 °C the earth’s integrity can be preserved
and many of the potentially grave consequences
of climate change could be avoided. This threshold is
Regional training workshop on the identification and development of climate change no-regret actions in the water sector (3-5 October 2012, Amman –Jordan)
SWIM-SM has conducted a 3-day regional training to develop the capacity of national and local water practitioners from the Partner Countries (PCs) to undertake immediate precautionary measures towards the adaptation of the water sector to potential negative impacts of climate change.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) secretariat has produced this book to
highlight the concerns and needs of developing countries
in adapting to the effects of climate change. This book
outlines the impact of climate change in four developing
country regions: Africa, Asia, Latin America and small
island developing States; the vulnerability of these regions
to future climate change; current adaptation plans,
strategies and actions; and future adaptation options
and needs.
In collaboration with national meteorological services, the PCCSP has developed eight-page brochures that present country-specific information about the past, current and future climate of each of the partner countries. These brochures can be accessed from the following links.
Vanuatu, an archipelago consisting of 13 principal islands and 60 secondary islands, spreads
from the 13th to the 21st parallel south and covers an area of 12,050 km² in the Pacific Ocean.
The capital, Port-Vila, located on Efate island, is 530 km north-east of Nouméa, New
Caledonia.
This Report
1. We were fielded by AusAID (PB: 26 May to 14 June ‘06) and NZAID (BM:
6 to 26 June ‘06) to initiate dialogue with the Government of Vanuatu (GoV) over
potential areas of support to economic growth from productive sector3 priorities
established in the Government of Vanuatu’s Priorities and Action Agenda 2006 -
2015
(the ‘PAA’). Terms of Reference are at Attachment 8.
2. Accompanied by DESP, we met with government departments and
officials, private sector operators and their industry bodies in the agriculture,
As support to the policies and strategies contained in the Overarching Productive Sector Policy
document, this situation analysis discusses agriculture’s contribution to broad–based growth in the
Vanuatu economy, analyses constraints to growth and identifies key strategies that would enable
further productive sector growth. In addition the analysis is widened to cover the important socioeconomic
and political context of increasing growth.
The analysis also recognises that many of determinants of agricultural productivity fall outside of
Presentation made by Jude Tabi on likely impacts of climate change on the forestry sector, and possible adaptations.
Powerpoint presentation to promote awareness of impacts of climate changeand practical adaptations.